Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major item on the program, Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, is a highly complex and intellectual vision purveying a vision of hell as "other people" in perhaps unnecessarily melodramatic terms. The central characters are so exaggerated as human types that only a considerable dramatic achievement renders the characters and situation believable even as fantasy, while at the same time serving the author's somewhat muddy propagandistic purpose...
...Teller came a top-name team of experts on science and military matters to criticize and suggest. Dr. Vannevar Bush, able wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services...
...cruel coincidence, nature has dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
Faculty members have long complained among themselves about the way WIU treats its athletes. They get juicy "state scholarships," live in three dormitories of their own, are allowed to come and go as they please, play on Saturday afternoons against such bush-league teams as Southern Illinois University and Central Michigan College. But it was not until last fall, when Star Halfback Bobby McCue and two teammates confessed to burglary, that the situation at Western Illinois came out in the open...
...government announcement said 137 persons in the crowd around the President last night were still in Jakarta Municipal Central Hospital for treatment of shrapnel wounds. Most of them are small children. Seven persons, including two children, were killed instantly...